On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: > > personally I prefer syntax without FOR keyword - because following > keyword > > must be reserved keyword > > > SET x = .., y = .. SELECT ... ; > > Nope. Most of the statement-starting keywords are *not* fully reserved; > they don't need to be as long as they lead off the statement. But this > proposal would break that. We need to put FOR or IN or another > already-fully-reserved keyword after the SET list, or something's going > to bite us. >
Just throwing it out there but can we making putting SET inside a CTE work? David J.
